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Maybe Esther audiobook
- By: Katja Petrowskaja
- Narrator: Emma Gregory
- Category: Fiction, Historical
- Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 30, 2018
- Language: English
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Maybe Esther Audiobook Summary
An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.
Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors.
In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attache in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years later–and settled back into the family as if he’d never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis.
How do you talk about what you can’t know, how do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost, and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family.
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Maybe Esther Audiobook Narrator
Emma Gregory is the narrator of Maybe Esther audiobook that was written by Katja Petrowskaja
Katja Petrowskaja was born in 1970 in Kiev. She studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and was also awarded research fellowships to study at Columbia University in New York, and Stanford in California. Katja Petrowskaja received her PhD in Moscow. Since 1999, she has lived and worked in Berlin. Maybe Esther is her first book, and is translated into 20 languages.
About the Translator
Shelley Frisch’s numerous translations from the German, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich, Leni Riefenstahl, and Franz Kafka, have been awarded Modern Language Association and Helen and Kurt Wolff translation prizes. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
About the Author(s) of Maybe Esther
Katja Petrowskaja is the author of Maybe Esther
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Maybe Esther Full Details
| Narrator | Emma Gregory |
| Length | 7 hours 28 minutes |
| Author | Katja Petrowskaja |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | January 30, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9780062474490 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Maybe Esther is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the Maybe Esther is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062474490.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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